Typefaces designed in the 1920s
3 typefaces first released in the 1920s, in order.
| Typeface | Year | Designer | Kind | What it signals now |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper Black | 1922 | Oswald Bruce Cooper | Display | The 1970s, unmistakably. Soft, heavy, friendly, slightly stoned. |
| Futura | 1927 | Paul Renner | Sans-serif | Bauhaus modernism, and then anything wanting to look confident and geometric. |
| Gill Sans | 1928 | Eric Gill | Sans-serif | Britain, mid-century. Railways, the BBC, Penguin paperbacks. |
- Cooper Black Oswald Bruce Cooper, 1922
- Futura Paul Renner, 1927
- Gill Sans Eric Gill, 1928
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